Careers For People Who Like to Work Alone

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Just found on Yahoo... very applicable to Aspies:

> Careers For People Who Like to Work Alone

> http://education.yahoo.net/articles/car ... loners.htm

Captain Obvious strikes again! I love those lists. They pad them out by duplicating items. If there is any distinction between #2 "software developer" and #6 "computer programmer" it's a distinction without a difference. Even duplicating items they couldn't pad it out to a top 10 list. Software developer/computer programmer is better than, say, a used car salesman, but not something for loners. Graphic designers work closely with clients, it's not for loners, plus you have to sell yourself to get work in a very, very competitive marketplace. (Everyone with a Mac and PhotoShop is a graphic designer. It's a race to the bottom.) Accountant is probably the most stable profession on the list. Medical records (I once knew someone who worked in them) is like the lowest of the lowest in the medical field - if you remember the cartoon about the guy who had such low self-esteem he became a speed bump and had tire tracks on him, he probably worked in medical records.

I know from experience Courier is the PERFECT job for Aspies because they are largely left alone all day with a minimum of interaction. I would have chosen it if not for the insanely high insurance premiums. You would be amazed at how many courier jobs are available in your average city too.

Thanks, man. I am definitely gonna check it out.

Home based b2b internet sales office, wearing earplugs or playing music, which is not discouraging.

I have never owned a cel phone for more than a month, would not give the number out, but there have been apps, for awhile now, which process checks, without even going to the bank.

Would have been even easier to get someone else to do the work for me.

If you don't live in the US and are math/logic oriented, online poker is a nice way to make some money. Work from home, work as much or as little as you want, set own hours (although certain times of day will be more profitable than others), no BS office politics or corporate ladder to climb. "Salary" is directly linked to how good you are at the game, not how good you are at sucking up to your boss.

Doesn't really influence society in a positive way at all, though, so at some point you will begin to ask yourself those philosophical questions and worry that you are wasting your life because you aren't making the world a better place. I suppose you probably get that with most jobs, though.

Is this to say that card counting works, online?

Speaking of which, there are strategies for shorting stocks.

In past episodes of fiscal austerity, this career choice was particularly infamous.

I haven't memorized the system yet, perhaps because I have spent my time on class warfare dialectics.

Nope, just math and logic. Every hand of poker is a puzzle: given what we know about the opponents, their actions so far and how we think they perceive us, what hands or types of hands are they most likely to have? Given what we have in our hand, how can we make the best use of the situation and win the most / lose the least in the long run?

Blackjack is played against the house and is basically just playing the odds to grind out a tiny edge. Poker is played against other humans of varying skill levels, and a good player can have an insanely big edge against weak opponents.

I believe we're using different words to express the same idea.

To put it another way, does the website assume you are dealing with an ordinary deck of 52 playing cards?

I'm a writer. Even when I worked in an office, it was a very solitary type of job. There was a lot of editing and concentrating and everyone had his or her eyes on his or her desk all the time. I was so glad to be with people who were like me...whether they were forced to be or not. (Poor dudes and dudettes!)

Today I write from home. That's more due to circumstance (a special-needs son) than anything else. But it is perfect for me.

The choices listed in the article are all pretty obvious but I can see where some people would just like that push to sort of give up on trying to force themselves to be social all the time, including on the job. I can definitely see that.

My bad, I think I misinterpreted your first post. A lot of people think you can't win at poker, that you need to be lucky, that it's "gambling" or that "you're going to lose everything". In the long run where your sample size is literally millions of hands, luck is not even a factor.

I don't imagine that counting cards would work online. It barely works at a casino (unless you're playing high stakes with a stomach of steel and a giant bankroll to absorb the insane swings that will result from grinding out a ~1% edge while seeing only like 60 hands per hour). Maybe not every site works this way, but I imagine that the deck is "shuffled" after every hand when playing online.

Good luck with that online these days.

I waiting for my obsession to become the stock market... any day now...

Working from home in just about anything is probably the best thing for a loner. I like the courier suggestion - any delivery person, postman sort of job would be good if you like to be out but not around a lot of people.

Do online situations allow you to play against other humans for money, or does this happen only in physical casinos?

I believe this is a question of hours, and may refuse work, depending on the time.